“I never understand what the h__ Heidegger was talking about—if any Freepers have figured it out speak up!”
I think you understood it perfectly without realizing it... much of modern philosophy amounts to little more than verbal gibberish. To demonstrate this some wiseguy hired an actor to present a fake paper at a conference and no one caught on.
You are correct, existentialism is anti-thinking kind of thinking, even if you call it phenomenology. German philosophy is mind numbing and spends much energy in attacking the mind.